problem with wrapping Extended ASCII character with CDATA

[s123]

Hi,
while invoking a web service, if in xml request message i wrap the extended ASCII characters with CDATA it is not returning the desired result, while this is not the case if i do not wrap them with CDATA.
I can not ignore the use of CDATA as for characters "<" and "&" i need to use it. I am not getting why it is not recognizing the Extended ASCII characters correctly when they are wrapped with CDATA, the problem is there only with DB2 database not with Oracle...
and i am getting the same problem when in place of extended ascii characters their code like for £ i give "£" or "&#A3";
if anyone can help.. please reply..
Thanks
Swat.

[jkmyoung]

Is it possible for you to escape each of these characters?
&lt; is <
&gt; is >
&apos; is '
&quot; is "
&amp; is &